On the Thursday night we went to the kayak session at the North campus indoor pool. We arrived at 8pm ready to go and guess what…. Nobody there. We blagged our when into the centre. Normally there is a fee of $10 to get in (unless you are a member then its $20 per month). We decided to go in and get changed and wait at the poolside. The life guard said that they should be here. At about 8.20 a couple of student showed up, that is two students… Anyhow Katie checked out our ability to capsize safely and we picked boats and got on the pool. We paddled around and did rolls and such like. Georgie’s confidence is very low these days so we mainly practiced in close proximatey to each other. I could roll fine but still felt uncomftable – A lack of confidence too… With only 4 or 5 people at the pool it was a bit weird, but fun. We clowned around. Even a ball appeared and I went around practicing my canoe polo skills. On the following evening we had food out at the Ann Arbor Brew company. Turned out Daniel was there. I said hello and introduced Georgie to him. He had a girlfriend with him. They are due to be married later this year. We separated from them and went and sat down to eat. I had fish and chips – a rare thing in the US. Even more rare is the fact that they served it with vinigar. The waiter told us what to do with the vinigar to my amusement!
The following Tuesday at work I asked Daniel about joining the NCRC to make it easier. He explained how but said I needed an ID card. I mentioned that I was going kayaking and as it turned out Daniel was a kayaker too. He was reasonably excited about the idea of kayaking, and he went into explaining about the club and were they meet etc. Now this is were I should have said "Actually I went last Thursday", but for some reason I didn’t. I never like stopping people in full flow and then it get harder to say – I know! Later on he said he would go to the kayak session. I realized now that I should have told him that I had already been. When I got home we had tea and talked about the day. I told George that Daniel was a kayaker too. I also explained that I hadn’t told him I had already been last Thursday. I am a wally.
We got to the session and Daniel was there early as keen as ever to go kayaking. He explained were everything was and then Georgie said I know we came last Thursday. There was more than a moment of silence….. “You should of said something” and I weakly replied, “I was interested cos only Katie was here time…”. Well we got over the ugly moment – entirely my fault. I went about rolling etc. Daniel liked the reverse screw roll. He had never seen this before and was interested in giving it a go. Daniel and Michelle practiced rolling most of the night.
The following Tuesday at work I asked Daniel about joining the NCRC to make it easier. He explained how but said I needed an ID card. I mentioned that I was going kayaking and as it turned out Daniel was a kayaker too. He was reasonably excited about the idea of kayaking, and he went into explaining about the club and were they meet etc. Now this is were I should have said "Actually I went last Thursday", but for some reason I didn’t. I never like stopping people in full flow and then it get harder to say – I know! Later on he said he would go to the kayak session. I realized now that I should have told him that I had already been. When I got home we had tea and talked about the day. I told George that Daniel was a kayaker too. I also explained that I hadn’t told him I had already been last Thursday. I am a wally.
We got to the session and Daniel was there early as keen as ever to go kayaking. He explained were everything was and then Georgie said I know we came last Thursday. There was more than a moment of silence….. “You should of said something” and I weakly replied, “I was interested cos only Katie was here time…”. Well we got over the ugly moment – entirely my fault. I went about rolling etc. Daniel liked the reverse screw roll. He had never seen this before and was interested in giving it a go. Daniel and Michelle practiced rolling most of the night.
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